AND IT JUST KEEPS ROLLING ALONG

     No, not thinking of the army song but of the harmful nonsense that we keep getting gifted by our esteemed president. Almost 100 days, the same 100 days that he disparages on the one hand but yet parades on the other with planned celebrations, websites and constant boasting about how productive he has been. And he is correct - if one counts the destruction of much that made our country special, of the destruction of the environment, of the ruination of our future, of the threat to the health of people and their access to care, and of threats to our very existence in his moronic threats and lack of diplomacy. He has introduced hatred and prejudice into the open and has split our nation into two pieces with there being almost a war between these two pieces.
      And this gifting has not stopped overnight. We find that the Republicans - and OMG but Lincoln must be rolling  violently in his grave as he sees what has become of his Republican party - why they have decided that they are exempt from the rules of health coverage and here is what they have done. "The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people."
     But wait - there's more. Never let it be said that the Republican party of today is shy about its needs and wants. They are screw the people and to hell with them while they guard themselves, Party over country. Here is what they have done with this proposed new Obamacare destroying plan.
"Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping this Obamacare regulations.".
     Yes, dear readers, this is what we have become, a country where one class, one special group of people feel they have the right to override all that would be bothersome to them even as they apply these rules to others.
     So perhaps they have given us another present. Why yes they have. The moron's tax plan is due out today - cannot wait! - and here is what seems to have leaked out. Corporate taxes down to 15%, family run businesses and how odd it is that the Trump business falls into this category - down to 15% as well, and standard deductions to rise to $15,000 a person. Now you might be saying hooray for that last one, but people, where will we get the money to run the country, to fund the government expenses, to pay for the infrastructure that is so desperately needed? And please do not say that why the people and the corporations will spend all this money and create jobs. This has been tried before AND IT DOES NOT WORK!! This is yet another stupidity of an ignorant man and his Fat Cat Cabinet. Speaking of that Cabinet, yesterday, while protesting outside Rubio's office, one of the protesters had a sign which read "Ikea has better cabinets" and how true, how sadly true.
     So while we keep moving that clock closer to midnight and the president rants about our neighbors, both Mexico and Canada and throws monkey wrenches into our relationships with them, as he places our country more and more in the category of dictator ruled countries, especially when that dictator is mentally ill, emotionally disturbed and lacking of any and all wisdom and care for others, while all that happens what are we going to do about this? Well, come and join those who have decided to resist and protest, to protect our country and what it means, to defend those who cannot defend themselves, to remain true to our founding principles and to put this man and his most annoying family back where they belong.
     So Ivanka gets booed over in Europe when she declaims how her father supports families and women. Uh huh. So much for honesty. And the right wing, the far right wing, gains strength based on encouragement that even the USA has elected a populist, a nativist of extreme proportions and views and the world trembles on its axis. Close calls with Iranian ships, threats between North Korea and us and what a vision it makes of the weirdos calling back and forth but it is not so funny when one remembers the nuclear option thrown into the mix.
     So the gifts keep rolling along, but remember when our parents told us to not be greedy and do not ask for too many gifts? I do. Well, perhaps we need to share that bit of folk wisdom with the Trump administration and the oh so caring Republican party. To their health I guess is the toast and sadly so.

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